Introduction: Intentional gospel patterns in literature ; The silver chair by C.S. Lewis ; Brideshead revisited by Evelyn Waugh ; The end of the affair by Graham Greene ; Crime and punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky ; The wayward bus by John Steinbeck ; The old man and the sea by Ernest Hemingway -- Possible gospel patterns in literature ; Sir Gawain and the green knight ; Of mice and men by John Steinbeck ; A handful of dust by Evelyn Waugh ; Measure for measure by William Shakespeare ; The fall by Albert Camus ; The rime of the ancient mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Unintentional gospel patterns in literature ; The picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde ; The eternal husband by Fyodor Dostoevsky ; Holes by Louis Sachar ; The adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain ; The adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain ; Fairy tales-an analysis and two examples.